TY - JOUR
AU - Oliveira, Karla A.
AU - Pinter, Adriano
AU - Medina-Sanchez, Aaron
AU - Boppana, Venkata D.
AU - Wikel, Stephen K.
AU - Saito, Tais B.
AU - Shelite, Thomas
AU - Blanton, Lucas
AU - Popov, Vsevolod
AU - Teel, Pete D.
AU - Walker, David H.
AU - Galvao, Marcio A.M.
AU - Mafra, Claudio
AU - Bouyer, Donald H.
T1 - Amblyomma imitator Ticks as Vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii, Mexico
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2010
VL - 16
IS - 8
SP - 1282
SN - 1080-6059
AB - Real-time PCR of Amblyomma imitator tick egg masses obtained in Nuevo Leon State, Mexico, identified a Rickettsia species. Sequence analyses of 17-kD common antigen and outer membrane protein A and B gene fragments showed to it to be R. rickettsii, which suggested a potential new vector for this bacterium.
KW - Ticks
KW - Rickettsia rickettsii
KW - rickettsia
KW - Amblyomma imitator
KW - Rocky Mountain spotted fever
KW - ultrastructure
KW - vector-borne infections
KW - Mexico
KW - dispatch
DO - 10.3201/eid1608.100231
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/8/10-0231_article
ER - End of Reference